a traveling library of zines and other self-published DIY materials

5th stop: Cleveland

My camera battery died before the reading even started, but fortunately the one shot I got was of our magnificently generous and kind host, Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz.

It was John’s 29th birthday, so we embarrassed him by serving him a cake before his reading. There was also singing.

We should have asked the guy who performed before us to stick around for the singing. He probably could have serenaded John in several languages.

The crowd was small, but incredibly generous and with a high per capita cat count. Three of us stayed with Bill, the crazy cat lady (man) with four cats. We didn’t want to leave them, and almost couldn’t because of a 4th of July parade blocking not only our way to Anastasia’s house to pick up Celia, but our access to the road outta town.